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The Body Shop Tea Tree Skin Clearing Facial Wash Versus Glow Recipe Blueberry Bounce Gentle Cleanser

Face Cleanser
Face Cleanser
British Brand United Kingdom
American Brand United States

Updated on April 23, 2025

Overview

What they are

These products are both vegan, cruelty-free, and reef safe face cleansers. They have a total of 4 ingredients in common

Cool Features

They both contain AHA

Suited For

They're both likely to be good for anti aging, dry skin, brightening skin, sensitive skin, oily skin, reducing pores, scar healing and better texture

Free From

They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, parabens or silicones

What's Inside

They both contain fragrances

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Ingredient Info

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About this product

About this product

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Key Ingredients

Benefits

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Key Ingredients

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Ingredients Side-by-side

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Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

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Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Water. It's the most common cosmetic ingredient of all. You'll usually see it at the top of ingredient lists, meaning that it makes up the largest part of the product.

So why is it so popular? Water most often acts as a solvent - this means that it helps dissolve other ingredients into the formulation.

You'll also recognize water as that liquid we all need to stay alive. If you see this, drink a glass of water. Stay hydrated!

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Humectant, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Glycerin is already naturally found in your skin. It helps moisturize and protect your skin.

A study from 2016 found glycerin to be more effective as a humectant than AHAs and hyaluronic acid.

As a humectant, it helps the skin stay hydrated by pulling moisture to your skin. The low molecular weight of glycerin allows it to pull moisture into the deeper layers of your skin.

Hydrated skin improves your skin barrier; Your skin barrier helps protect against irritants and bacteria.

Glycerin has also been found to have antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Due to these properties, glycerin is often used in wound and burn treatments.

In cosmetics, glycerin is usually derived from plants such as soybean or palm. However, it can also be sourced from animals, such as tallow or animal fat.

This ingredient is organic, colorless, odorless, and non-toxic.

Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.

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Cleansing, Emulsion Stabilising

Decyl Glucoside is a glucose-based surfactant and emulsion stabilizer. It is created by reacting glucose with the fatty acids from plants.

Surfactants help clean the skin by trapping oil, sebum, and dirt to be washed away. As an emulsion stabilizer, it stabilizes the ingredients in a product by preventing them from separating.

This ingredient is biodegradable and non-toxic. This ingredient is commonly found in baby shampoos.

Decyl Glucoside is sometimes used to stabilize the UV filter Tinosorb.

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Masking

Chances are, you eat sodium chloride every day. Sodium Chloride is also known as table salt.

This ingredient has many purposes in skincare: thickener, emulsifier, and exfoliator.

You'll most likely find this ingredient in cleansers where it is used to create a gel-like texture. As an emulsifier, it also prevents ingredients from separating.

There is much debate on whether this ingredient is comedogenic. The short answer - comedogenic ratings don't tell the whole story. Learn more about comegodenic ratings here.

The concensus about this ingredient causing acne seems to be divided. Research is needed to understand if this ingredient does cause acne.

Scrubs may use salt as the primary exfoliating ingredient.

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When to use

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38% use in am
62% use in pm
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Reviews

Here's what our community thinks

The Body Shop Tea Tree Skin Clearing Facial Wash 28 ingredients

3.0 /5
from 2 ratings
Drying (2) Absorbs Well (1) Light (1)
juliarnborg's avatar

Julia

5 months ago
Review

Currently using this one because my last cleanser is out but it works pretty good my face feels clean but it’s pretty drying. Don’t recommend for dry skin.

#drying
#light
#absorbs well
#strong scent
rachelyee's avatar

Rachel Yee

1 month ago
Review

I have combination skin, so on more oily days this helps to make my face feel clean. But on normal days, after using it. It does make my face feel abit dry.

#drying

Glow Recipe Blueberry Bounce Gentle Cleanser 22 ingredients

4.3 /5
from 8 ratings
Works Well (3) Light Scent (3) Expensive (3)
GemKelly's avatar

GemKelly

12 months ago
Review

Great gentle cleanser that has a sweet blueberry fragrance, has AHAs and PHAs so lightly exfoliates but is gentle enough to use twice a day. It's not too drying, although of course I move on to the rest of my skincare soon after.

#expensive
#light
#light scent
#works well
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Lauren Beasley

4 months ago
Review

I have been using this AHA cleanser for a few years now. It doesn’t conflict with my hormonal acne or perioral dermatitis. It took some time to work up to it, since it is exfoliating. I love this product and use it with a FOREO Luna.

#light scent
#works well